In the News (Sat 25 May 19)

Notwithstanding the general perception, many third parties throughout U.S. history have achieved regional success and some (notably the Prohibition Party and the SocialistParty) have had major portions of their platforms incorporated into the platforms of the “major parties”.

The second section is called “Current third parties” and it consists of those parties that have achieved (or, in the lead-up to an election, are reasonably expected to achieve) ballot status for their respective candidates for President of the United States in states with enough electoral votes to have a theoretical chance of winning.

Each of these non-major parties had ballot status for its presidential candidate in states with enough electoral votes to have had a theoretical chance of winning the 2004 presidential election.

Included are the countries and entities listed in the list of countries.

The first list is a list of parties by country in the native name followed by an English translation (when necessary and available).

The third list is an alphabetical list of party names in native languages when these names are more commonly used in English-speaking sources.

en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties (3940 words)

Encyclopedia article on List of political parties in the United States [EncycloZine](Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)

There have been many politicalparties other than the two dominant ones, but most third parties are generally considered to be of only minor and short-lived political significance.

For example, the Libertarian Party was legally a major party in the state of Washington from 2000 to 2004.

Still other groups call themselves politicalparties, but they have no candidates at all and merely use the term as a means to focus issue debate or to satirize the concept of politicalparties (and sometimes it's difficult to determine which is which).

Australia has a mild two-party system, which means that there are two dominant politicalparties or coalitions, and it's difficult for independants or other parties to gain seats.

Less significant parties include the Australian Greens, a left wing and environmentalist party; the Australian Democrats, a party of middle-class centrists; One Nation, a populist anti-immigration and protectionist party; and the Family First Party, a party appealing to socially conservative Christians.

Brown is the party's senior elected official and is treated by the media and public as its leader.

America's Open Debates Foundation is a national foundation committed to networking existing "free election" organizations, every legitimate nationalparty, ballot access and electionreform movements into one cooperative, unified and powerful voice.

Third Parties '96 is a movement to build a new mainstream politicalparty

Parti Constitutionnel a non-profit political organization for the adoption in France of the American Constitution and way of life